S 5016 New Jersey Senate · 2024-2025 Regular Session

Permits dual-use solar facilities to participate in community solar program.

S 5016 allows dual-use solar facilities - solar installations that also support agricultural activities like crop growing - to join New Jersey's community solar program. This expands the program's eligibility to include these projects, directly affecting solar developers and utility customers who can now access bill credits from dual-use solar farms. The bill does not alter existing program rules for standard solar facilities but explicitly adds dual-use projects as a new category of eligible participants. The community solar program continues to let customers receive bill credits for solar energy generated at remote sites within their utility territory.
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Introduced Dec 18, 2025 Last action Dec 18, 2025
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Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Environment and Energy Committee
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